Inside the Star

Punish climate change deniers

By avoiding its responsibility to fight climate change, the government of Canada is guilty of letting millions of people suffer around the world. Stephen Harper and his “climate change denying” friends and acolytes in the business industry, should be tried under the International Criminal Court and condemned as environmental criminals.

By avoiding its responsibility to fight climate change, the government of Canada is guilty of letting millions of people suffer around the world. Stephen Harper and his “climate change denying” friends and acolytes in the business industry, should be tried under the International Criminal Court and condemned as environmental criminals.

The ridiculously low amount of money promised by the Canadian government to help Pakistan makes me think of those people who buy “carbon offsets” so that they can leave their guilt at the door when they board a plane and fly all over the world.

Those dramatic events in Pakistan, in China and the fires in Russia, show us that we have to act promptly on reducing our carbon emissions. Governments around the world have to declare a “planetary state of emergency” to deal with the effects of climate change.